I got 99 problems...actually I have only 1

[gwyn]

(Well, two sorta -- my awful foster dog is sick, most likely from eating something in the garden she shouldn't have. Blech. I'm waiting to see if I need to take her to the vet.)

My real problem is this: I'm at 8,000 words on this Bucky and Steve trying to find each other story and I have barely begun it -- and it's going to be full of flashbacks to important things between them from before the war to during the war. I have a bad feeling this is going to be another one of my why can't I fucking write short epics, but I don't know what to do about it.

So y'all helped me decide to write that Sam/Steve double date story first, now I need you to help me figure this out. Do I wait till I'm finished and post it or post it as a WIP? I have a somewhat dodgy history with WIPS -- I did manage to finish Ciudad de Estrellas, my Fast and Furious thing, but I had a tough time because my sister's death came in the middle of it. The same thing was a problem with my Buffy WIP, Measure of a Man, and I've never finished it. Not for want of trying, but it was just so fucking hard after both losing my twin and losing the show -- it was kind of a double whammy for me. I still have this hope that I may finish it someday.

I like to edit and edit and edit my stuff. It's harder to do that when you're posting in pieces, making sure one piece is in tip top shape before posting. And it's not like hurrying will make a difference, I don't tend to get a lot of hits for anything, even hot fandoms, plus next week X-Men opens, so I think everyone will move over there for the time being. So waiting might be easier. And I've been really really depressed this past week, so it's kind of a struggle to be creative.

But...if I get busy again, which may happen, my writing time will drop back down to almost nil. Don't a lot of people also not read WIPs? I don't have that problem myself but I don't know. What's the general consensus?

I gotta say, the timeline for the first movie is driving me batshit. As a WWII buff, I find everything that they're doing is so...it's like, so close and yet so far. We weren't hanging around in northern Italy in Nov. of 1943 having USO shows (the Allied invasion began in Sept. of '43; I think Anzio was Jan. of '44), and we never, even at the end of the war, got up past the Po, where it's implied they were during the rescue. And you couldn't fly back and forth to England and Italy anyway, if that war room is really back in England -- they would have had to go around the Iberian peninsula with fuckin' prop planes or ships, basically, and that would take for fucking ever. It's just crazy. I don't understand what they're thinking. And if Cap and the boys marched back from where they were held? Days. And it's winter. I just, what? Did no one actually read any WWII histories?

I know I need to just let it go and write according to the movie canon, but wow, is it ever hard.

Comments

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I had NO idea that you'd responded to this…fuck LJ man, I wonder how many other comments I'm missing. ANYWAY. These are all really good points -- i guess I just get sort of irritated about this as a topic and get overly excited. And of course you're right, just because people might be really well represented somewhere doesn't mean they have the power to effect a change, or that they aren't pressured by other things. Film studies has always been something really important to me, the history of the business, so I tend to think of what people have done in the past and not the way the business is run now (not that things aren't in some ways better, but in others, it's not an improvement).

So I haven't been able to work up the enthusiasms to see XMDOFP just because of my feelings about the first one. Will I blow a gasket in this one? I'm already pissed the Kitty Pryde's role was downgraded so Wolverine could time travel...

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how you'd feel about the movie, I don't know enough about 1973 or 4 or whatever year it was set in to know if it was accurate or not.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

But I mean, did *you* like it? My biggest issue with XMFC wasn't that it was filled with anachronisms so much as that they did what you mentioned with Kevin Bacon's character, and that they killed off the black guy so quickly. I know you were really looking forward to it. It's weird, I haven't seen the people I know best post about it; the only reviews I've seen are from people I don't know as well. I'd love to know what my friends think! These days, I have so much pain that I have to pick movies pretty carefully, though I got a cortisone shot today so maybe that will change.

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

I think it was a pretty mediocre movie, for the most part not very well written and the plot made little sense and the pacing was awful, and there was some gross stuff in it (for example, in the future world where they're doing the time travel, literally all the white people are inside with Wolverine and all the people of color are manning the battlements. And I'm never happy with what they do with Mystique! AND they still found a way for Charles to not use his wheelchair for a bunch of the flashbacks, which, WHYYYY, and I HATE that Magneto was somehow involved in the Kennedy assassination, it's just so dumb and annoying). But I really did like it and want to see it again anyway. The Charles/Erik stuff was incredible and that's mostly what I cared about, and it put me in a floaty shippy place for a couple of days.